[TowerTalk] Radio's/tunnels

[Curtis, David B]

*I* haven't heard of Radiax. Please tell us about this wonderous product.
73, Dave N6NZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin E. Midgett [mailto:rmidgett@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 6:29 PM
To: alsopb; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radio's/tunnels



I wonder if the D.C. services ever heard of Radiax?


At 08:16 AM 5/2/2000 +0000, alsopb wrote:

>This is an extract from the Wash. Post.
>
>Radios Hampered Response to Metro Fire
>
>By Lyndsey Layton
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Tuesday , May 2, 2000 ; A01
>
>Trapped passengers could have been rescued and subway service restored
>in 70 minutes instead of four hours, if the telephones and radios of
>the D.C. fire department had not repeatedly cut out or temporarily
>gone dead, Metro officials said yesterday in a review of the April 20
>tunnel fire.
>
>Firefighters who rushed to the tunnel between the Farragut West and
>Foggy Bottom stations shortly after 5 p.m. found themselves in a
>"communications blackout," unable to talk to each other on their
>hand-held radios or to Metro officials on their cellular telephones,
>said Fred Goodine, Metro's chief safety officer. Fire officials say
>they
>still don't know what caused the problems.
>*********************************************************
>
>Have people strayed so far from reality that they don't realized
>radios don't work in underground tunnels?  This
>ignorance/unpreparedness could have cost lives.
>
>They say later in the article that they will have to string "antennas"
>in the tunnels in the future.
>
>It is a tribute to the RF engineers that radios are so reliable in so
>many instances that people take them for granted and forget they have
>limitations.  Their "success" lead to these problems.
>
>de Brian/K3KO
>
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73,
Robin E. Midgett KB4IDC EM66se
rmidgett@bellsouth.net
1/2 of the Award Winning NT4L Rover Team
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